Jack Lousma, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, pilot, politician. That’s quite a career, joining the United States Marine Corps in 1959 before being selected as an astronaut in 1966. He…
What do you do if you fail the eyesight test for the US Air Force, then fail the eyesight test for the US Navy? You go straight over…
I was 13 years old in 1984, the Cold War was still years away from thawing, Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative had been announced the year before, and Space…
In 1997 during a docking test with the use of an onboard remote control, an unmanned cargo vessel collided into the Russian Mir Space Station. The collision punctured…
I remember the 80s…a time for heroes, high-five flyers and top gun shuttle pilots. Just as well then that today, thanks to the team at Space Lectures, I…
Mark and Scott Kelly are the only siblings to have travelled in space with 4 spaceflights each and NASA’s only set of identical twin astronauts . Today, thanks…
Moving around the galactic circles that I do (even though I’m not a heavenly body or will ever be accused of having a heavenly body), I’m up in Manchester…
Hot on the heels of meeting high flyer Eileen Collins, today I’ve met Chuck Deiterich, NASA RETRO Flight Controller during the Apollo program, to attend his talk ‘A…
Today I met Eileen Collins, a former United States Air force Colonel, test pilot, instructor and NASA astronaut becoming the first female pilot and first female commander of…
Moving in the kind of galactic circles that I do, I’m off to meet another Apollo astronaut, Fred Haise. The fantastic team at www.space-lectures.com have managed to persuade…
Today, I met Apollo and Space Shuttle astronaut Ken Mattingly and listen to his lecture The Spirit and Triumph of Apollo 13. The significance of the date is…